Materials needed metric ruler scissors 2 pieces of aluminum foil 16 cm x 13 5 cm big bowl of water 30 to 40.
Tin foil boat marbles.
You can use more or less if you want.
Form the foil over one of your shapes.
You will start with a rectangular piece of foil.
Remember to be gentle with your foil and dry it off between trials.
Place the boat in the bowl of water.
Fold the two aluminum foil squares into two different boat hulls.
Rip off a square of foil.
Finally you will pinch the corners together to close off the edges.
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How much space a boat takes up can help spread out the gravity over a larger area.
First you will need to fold in each of the edges of the foil about 1 2 inch.
Add marbles one at a time until it sinks.
Many moons ago when i was in high school my english teacher gave us an assignment to try and build a boat out of two sheets of aluminum foil that were each 2 square feet in area 1 x2.
Whichever boat was able to support the most weight wins.
Tin foil bowl scissors pennies water directions.
Small weights marbles nuts bolts and washers then do this.
For example you could make one square be 12 inches by 12 inches or 30 centimeters cm by 30 cm and make the second square be 6 inches by 6 inches or 15 cm by 15 cm.
A large tub of water.
Then reshape your boat to see if you can get it to hold more marbles than your first try.
The shapes of the boats all helped to spread out the weight of the boat.
See how many pennies your boat can carry before it sinks.
Test your design to see if it floats.
Read the book shark in the dark discuss what you know about sharks.
Count how many marbles your boat held.
Begin adding pennies for the boat s cargo.
Aluminum foil boat experiment continued aluminum foil boat experiment was it your largest boat that could hold the most weights.
Build a boat out of aluminum foil and see how many marbles your boat can hold.
A larger boat usually holds more weight than a smaller one.
Design a boat using aluminum foil.
Introduce the challenge how many marbles can you rescue from the shark.
12 x 12 aluminum foil ruler scissors pen pencil i hand folded everything.
Cut a piece of tin foil 5 x 6 inches.
Then you open up the fold edges and stand them straight up.
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